DES MOINES, Iowa—Former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley spoke at the Iowa Caucus Consortium 2016 Candidate Series in Des Moines Friday afternoon. O’Malley said he votes for the “sensible rebalancing” of the economy. “Together we have to choose to make a more inclusive economy that works for all of our people,” O’Malley said. The Caucus […]
Democratic members of Congress have requested an investigation into the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind two undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives. The Center for Medical Progress has released two undercover videos in its “Human Capital” series, depicting two senior Planned Parenthood executives discussing the price “per specimen” of fetal organs such as […]
Texas law enforcement released a graphic dashcam video Tuesday showing a routine traffic stop escalate into a violent altercation between Sandra Bland and a state trooper, leading to her arrest. Bland was found hanging in her jail cell three days later. The footage from trooper Brian Encinia’s car initially shows the officer handing Bland a […]
The Center for Medical Progress unveiled another covertly filmed video that exposes a Planned Parenthood executive negotiating the price of aborted fetal body parts. Social media has been erupting with responses from both sides of the aisle since the release of the video. Common hashtags surrounding the scandal include #DefundPlannedParenthood, #PPSellsBabyParts, #SketchySource and #StandwithPP. Among […]
Arthur Laffer sat at dinner with Ford administration officials Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld 40 years ago, sketching his tax policy theory in sharpie on the back of a cloth napkin, declaring that tax cuts would stimulate the floundering economy. The napkin drawing etched Laffer’s name as the intellectual architect of Reaganomics and spurred a […]
By Marc A. Thiessen June 22 In the announcement speech for his presidential campaign, Donald Trump railed against Obamacare. “We have a disaster called the big lie: Obamacare,” Trump declared. “I would repeal and replace the big lie, Obamacare.” Well, that sounds like something a Republican candidate would say. But there is one problem: Trump […]
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – With a goal of hitting all 99 counties here traveling by Winnebago bus, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker introduced himself Sunday to Iowans. “The rest of the world needs to know that there is no greater friend and no worse enemy than the United States of America,” Walker told voters here, who […]
A few years ago, the Obama administration caught backlash after the Department of Education released suggested lesson plans to schools in conjunction with a national back-to-school address that the president was delivering on Sept. 8, 2009. But federally directed lesson plans are so 2009. On Friday the Department of Education released a “checklist” designed to “help […]
Alaska’s governor said Thursday he was using his executive authority to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act after failing to get the state legislature to sign off on providing the coverage. Independent Gov. Bill Walker’s announcement seats Alaska as the 30th state to expand Medicaid coverage. The independent governor said his state could not […]
DOVER, N.H. – Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton praised President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran during a town hall meeting Thursday night. “It basically does put a lid, for a time period, on the Iranian program,” Clinton said. On Tuesday, the United States and other world powers reached a diplomatic […]
